Hanford building set for demolition (w/ video)
This story was published Thursday,
By Annette Cary
Tri-City Herald (WA)
April 12, 2007

After 428 "dives" by Hanford workers into the vaults beneath the
Plutonium Finishing Plant's Liquid Waste Treatment Facility, the Cold
War relic is ready to come down.

It will be the second of nine highly contaminated buildings at the
Plutonium Finishing Plant to be demolished and likely the last to be
demolished for several years.

"The surface contamination when we started (was) pretty much off the
scale," said project manager Brian Skeels of Fluor Hanford.

In many cases, radiation levels were too high for instruments to read
when cleanup work started. And the air within the vaults was
contaminated at levels 30,000 times what workers are allowed to breathe
without respirators.